Agile Metrics in Practice #4: No feedback loop? No continuous improvement!
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A lesson to improve agile delivery team outcomes
Agile delivery teams that share prupose and values and focus on their actions and efforts will deliver their preferred outcomes as intended.
Chris Boys
Oct 4, 2024
Let's talk about trust, working remotely and agile delivery teams
Trust me, I get it. I’m the founder of a start-up. Time equals money. But how am I so sure that working remotely hasn’t affected my agile delivery...
Chris Boys
Oct 4, 2024
Our journey to complete a sprint #1
Finishing a sprint sounds easy, but we find it really difficult. We have set ourselves a new goal to complete … More
Paulus van der Kolk
Oct 4, 2024
How to get Product and Engineering in synch and unstoppable
Remote and distributed teamwork is making it more acute than ever to get agile Product an Engineering delivery teams in synch and unstoppable.
Chris Boys
Oct 4, 2024
July Release Notes: Success Factors to cover all aspects of a sprint
July was a great month, our cycle time was shorter and we were able to release an additional 4 new … More
Paulus van der Kolk
Oct 4, 2024
Agile Metrics in Practice #3: Delivering value through Continuous Improvement
Continuous improvement is synonymous with agile software delivery practices. It’s also the primary driver for measuring agile performance with...
Chris Boys
Oct 4, 2024
Case study: Getting Agile delivery right
Visualising the rate of sprint completion and sprint stability over time tells a real story of delivery maturity and what may be holding teams back.
Paulus van der Kolk
Oct 4, 2024
Indicators for an effective team
Where to start to create an effective team? From working with 50+ teams over the last two years, we have … More
Paulus van der Kolk
Oct 4, 2024
November Release Notes: Improved Overtime Navigation
One of the many benefits of working with data is that over time you collect a lot of it. This … More
Paulus van der Kolk
Oct 4, 2024
The impact of digital transformation on people
What is the impact of digital transformation on people. When done well, it will empower people and deliver results. Umano provides guidance in this...
Paulus van der Kolk
Oct 4, 2024
How do you boost your team's success?
In my last post, I wrote about the ultimate goal that defines my teams success: obsessing about our customers. Where … More
Chris Boys
Oct 4, 2024
July release notes: Success factors of a team
We are pleased to release Umano 1.1.0, which includes some big changes to the way we analyse our data and … More
Paulus van der Kolk
Oct 4, 2024
Agile Metrics in Practice #2: Keeping the Agile Principles alive
Get intentional about making the agile principles living and breathing truths in your team by applying a system of measurement with related agile...
Chris Boys
Oct 4, 2024
The case for improving team communication
Good communication encourages team input, strengthens relationships, creates common understanding, and produces team members who feel appreciated and...
Chris Boys
Oct 4, 2024
Umano Insights from Atlassian Team'24
‘The New Frontier’, or getting back to basics?! In the face of organisations disrupting themselves from within, the ‘elephant in … More
Chris Boys
Oct 4, 2024
June Release Notes: Sprint Based Metrics
It has been a while since our last release notes. It might have been quiet here with new releases, but … More
Paulus van der Kolk
Oct 4, 2024
Expand your visibility beyond bias and what's obvious
Avoid myopia from only looking at only one metric. View a situation from multiple angles, a picture enriched with insights from several metrics.
Chris Boys
Oct 4, 2024
Our journey to complete a sprint #2
A good start is half the battle won. A look back at our last 3 sprints. While Umano’s rate of … More
Paulus van der Kolk
Oct 4, 2024
From insight to action
As an analytics tool focussed on improving software developers and Software teams, we understand the importance of having evidence to base a decision...
Paulus van der Kolk
Oct 1, 2024
Broader Engineering Metrics for Better Agility Outcomes
We need to look more broadly than just application serviciability when it comes to enhancing agility outcomes for engineering organisations.
Chris Boys
Oct 1, 2024
Agile Metrics in Practice #5: Dealing with the Detractors
We’ve all experienced many blockers that fly in the face of optimising team success through the use insights that metrics can provide. Get clear on...
Chris Boys
Oct 1, 2024
Agile Metrics in Practice #1: Start with why
A series for self-managed agile software development teams wanting to become data driven, continuously improve and stay ahead.
Chris Boys
Oct 1, 2024
Our journey to complete a sprint #3
A great start for the sprint! Our least consistent week so far, and we are proud of it! We’ve been … More
Paulus van der Kolk
Oct 1, 2024
From bio markers to markers of agility outcomes
Learning from DNA and blood tests to improve longevity provides a different lens on how teams can learn from agility markers to improve agility...
Chris Boys
Oct 1, 2024
Evaluating and improving your software delivery team 'machine'
Effective software delivery teams build a practice that gives them 'high-level thinking' to objectively look down, evaluate where they're at and...
Chris Boys
Oct 1, 2024
September Release Notes: New Technology and Behaviour Factors
The latest release includes new succes factors for Umano's Technology and Behaviour trait to help software engineering teams improve their practises
Paulus van der Kolk
Oct 1, 2024
Agile Metrics in Practice #7: Tips for collecting and analysing data
Your agile practices will generate a rich dataset captured automatically by your tools of their own accord. The key is to use the same tools,...
Chris Boys
Oct 1, 2024
August Release Notes: Speed of Review
We are pleased to release Umano 1.2.0 which includes a new success factor and updates to existing success factors to … More
Paulus van der Kolk
Oct 1, 2024
6 Steps to Building Accountability in Agile Scrum Teams
Remote and distributed teamwork is making it more acute than ever to strengthen our team environment and culture of accountability.
Chris Boys
Oct 1, 2024
Leaders are learners - are you?
Umano is excited to have launched its company-wide insights service. We’ve created ~100 metrics that measure software delivery team performance.
Chris Boys
Oct 1, 2024
Is visibility a vital skill for agile teams working remotely?
Visibility is your secret weapon to help distributed teams stay ahead. See it to believe it, take the power back and stop remote work from isolating...
Chris Boys
Oct 1, 2024
Case study: Communication & Collaboration
Timeliness and customer involvement are two important measures of communication and collaboration for Engineering Leaders to foster.
Paulus van der Kolk
Oct 1, 2024
Adapt or Die
In addition to Brad immortalising Charles Darwin’s profound words, these were the words quoted by my husband of an Insead … More
Chris Boys
Oct 1, 2024
The Importance of Defining Software Development Team Success.
The success of software development teams is critical to any organisation’s success but what do you focus on when defining your team's success?
Chris Boys
Oct 1, 2024
Fail fast or iterate to success
When is the right time to give up on bringing your product to market? I think the adage of failing … More
Chris Boys
Oct 1, 2024
September Release Notes: Creating projects
The releases of this month bring us closer to the fully self-manageable SaaS product we strive to be. Where Umano’s … More
Chris Boys
Oct 1, 2024
The impact of lead and cycle time on agile practices
Great agile teams understand the unique drivers that impact their time, so they can predictably deliver value to customers, time and time again.
Chris Boys
Sep 30, 2024
Data Driven Retrospectives: a must for high performing agile teams
Understand how to build culture of ownership, accountability and self-directed learning for your team’s growth in all aspects of agile practice and...
Chris Boys
Nov 11, 2020
The ROI of Delivery Team Data
It's time to unlock the potential of agile team data to reduce software delivery inefficiencies and improve customer outcomes.
Chris Boys
Jul 20, 2020
Agile Metrics in Practice #6: Principles for using metrics
Before jumping in to measuing your agile team, use these 12 principles to set-up your agile metrics practice for success.
Chris Boys
Jun 23, 2020
Working from home: Top 10 tips to balance teamwork online.
Umano is no stranger to working remotely. Here are our top10 tips to making teamwork online easier for you and your team.
Chris Boys
Apr 27, 2020